After the next change of command in the Senate, Donald Trump re-appoints David Skeel and Arthur Gonzalez to the Board

Washington dc – The president Donald Trump he reappointed David Skeel and Arthur González to the Board of Fiscal Supervision (JSF).

The information was advanced this morning to The New Day by sources close to the White House and later confirmed by the tax body itself, which in a statement welcomed the appointments that “complete the process of appointing the seven members of the JSF for a period of three years.”

The decision to reassign Skeel was made after votes in Georgia that may have left Democrats in control of a Senate majority.

As the next Democratic majority leader in the Senate, Charles Schumer (New York), he could have recommended the candidate to replace Skeel, who was again suggested as a member of the JSF by the current Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell. .

Arthur González had been proposed for a new term at the JSF by speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Had Schumer been able to select a replacement for Skeel, the appointment expired in August 2019, Democrats could have recommended 4 of the seven members of the JSF, which controls Puerto Rico’s public finances.

The appointments were made amid the chaos of the violent takeover of Congress by supporters of President Trump, at a time when the Senate and the lower house were meeting to receive the results of the polling station that confirmed the Joe Biden victory on November 3rd.

Skeel is the current president of the JSF. It was recommended in August 2016 by McConnell. Although he was again included as a Republican senator candidate, the White House had curbed his nomination.

Arthur González, a former bankruptcy judge, was appointed directly in August 2016 by then-President Barack Obama.

Although he was on Pelosi’s list of recommendations, Gonzalez had to step down several months after President Trump chose for that position the managing partner of public relations and lobbying firm DCI Group, Justin Peterson who until the summer of 2018 represented government creditors of the island.

At a time when it has to consider Puerto Rico’s government debt adjustment plan, which is due to be presented no later than Feb. 10 to Judge Laura Taylor Swain, the JSF will now have its seven members with new appointments.

In addition to Skeel and Peterson, the other members of the congressional body recommended by Congress Republicans are Andrew Biggs, suggested for a second term by Senator McConnell, and John Nixon, who was the leader of the Republican minority chamberlain, Kevin McCarthy.

At the request of Democrats, meanwhile, Trump has given a new three-year term to former Judge Gonzalez, and appointed for the first time former director of the Industrial Development Company (Pridco) Antonio Medina – on Pelosi’s recommendation – and the Acting Commissioner of Education of New York, Betty Rosa, driven by Schumer.